Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh

  • From: Susan Baur <susan@xxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:16:23 -0800

Hi Dave,
Unfortunately, the fix was to not use Parallels but to use VMWare's Fusion instead. It worked first try. Academic price for Fusion is $40 so that was definitely affordable for me. 

--Susan


On Feb 23, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Dave wrote:


Hi,
What was the fix to get that to work?
Thanks.
Dave.


-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Susan Baur
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:09 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh
Success! JAWS 10 is installed and working on a Macintosh virtual environment 
using VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 and a Windows XP, Service Pack 3 guest OS.

--Susan


On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Susan Baur wrote:


Thanks for the data point Chris. I am installing XP into a VMWare
Fusion VM. Hopefully that will work better than Parallels.

--Susan


On Feb 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:


I have the same problem with VMware Workstation, but only if my
Windows Guest is either Vista or 7. It's annoying and the only stable 
VM I can run are ones with XP as its guest Operating System.

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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:50 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh


So it's definitely something with the video intercept software.
Possibly a
compatibility issue? I'm just guessing at this point, since I don't
own a mac nevermind trying to put JAWS on it. But judging by what
you're saying, it looks like it's having trouble hooking into the
video subsystem your VM uses. It's a common problem when trying to
run video intensive applications for Windows inside of a Windows VM.
Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea how you'd go about working
around it. You might try mailing lists for either that particular VM
software or mac OS?

James,
List Admin

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Baur
Sent: February 20, 2009 6:42 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh

Thank you for the quick response. I downloaded JAWS/MAGic Video
Intercept from the JAWS download page and installed it, but
unfortunately it crashed my VM in what appears to be the same way
after it restarted the system.

--Susan


On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Blackwell, Clifford wrote:


Did you install the video intercept manager before installing Jaws?
It
sounds as if that might be the problem. I don't run the kind of set 
up you're talking about, but the syptoms sound like a video
intercept problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Baur
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:11 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh

Hi,

I am trying to get JAWS 10 installed on Windows XP running under
Parallels 3 for Macintosh. The installer appears to run successfully 
then asks to restart the Virtual Machine. The VM crashes on restart
after the Windows splash screen displays for a few moments. It will
start up successfully in safe mode but running only in safe mode is
not an option. Has anyone had success getting JAWS 10 to work in a
Parallels VM? Does anyone have pointers to resources the might help? 
My searches on google and the freedom scientific site have not been
helpful, though I did find one blog entry from 2007 that said they
had gotten it to work, but no specific versions or steps were
mentioned.

Thank you for any information you can provide, --Susan






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